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0232 - Radio Producer
🕑 Added 2023-06-26 08:00:01 +0000 UTCOur first character in the final episode of season one is this guy who works on Marvin Monroe's radio show.
I've peeked ahead and I'm afraid this episode doesn't have many particularly memorable new additions to our canon - this guy certainly never shows up again.
So now seems as good a time as any to dish out the trivia that "Some Enchanted Evening" was actually the first production episode of the series - but massive chunks of it were re-animated when the producers were unhappy with how it looked. This pushed it all the way to the end of the season, and even then you can see some of the wackier animation survive in the final episode.
Some of the original version can be seen here. It's crazy to see what the show almost was, it's hard to know if it would have survived if it looked like this. Radio producer seems to have come through the process unscathed, only to never appear again.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.
Comments
David Cooper
Yeah, that's interesting! I can't find a great deal about the production of the shorts, but I imagine the animation staff was very different from what was used on the show. It's like they established a look then went back to square one.
Skyler Payne
It's strange how off brand the cut animation looks when there were a few Tracy Ullman era sketch's where the animation looked closer to season 2's more established tone.
David Cooper
He's a fan favourite! They're all fan favourites!
Max Flower
WOOOOO RADIO PRODUCER!!!!!
